Did film get access to CIA ‘vault’?

Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, R-N.Y., charged Wednesday that the CIA and Defense Department jeopardized national security by cooperating too closely with Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal on their movie about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

King first raised questions about the bin Laden movie last summer.

But referencing new documents obtained by Judicial Watch in a Freedom of Information Act request, King said the filmmakers received "extremely close, unprecedented and potentially dangerous collaboration" from the Obama administration.

Judicial Watch said the documents show that the Defense Department granted Bigelow and Boal access to a "planner, operator and commander of SEAL Team 6" — the unit that killed bin Laden in Pakistan.

The Defense Department denies this.

Other documents, Judicial Watch said, show that the filmmakers met at least twice with White House officials. A CIA email indicates that Bigelow and Boal were granted access to "the vault," described as the CIA building where some of the raid's tactical planning took place.

Pentagon press secretary George Little disputed some of the allegations and said the Defense Department engages on a regular basis with the entertainment industry on movie projects in order to help "make them as realistic as possible."

Little denied that the cooperation was an attempt to boost President Obama's election chances. He said the movie would not be out until after the election — a release is slated for Dec. 19.

CIA spokesman Preston Golson disputed the allegation that filmmakers were given access to a secret "vault."

"Virtually every office and conference room in our headquarters is called a 'vault' in agency lingo," he said.

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— Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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